Wallace Stegner

Wallace Earle Stegner

Retired literary agent Joe Allston passes through life as a spectator until he discovers the journals of a trip he took to his mother's birthplace years before.

The Spectator Bird

Twee Amerikaanse echtparen delen bijna vier decennia lang lief en leed.

Wat behouden blijft / druk 1

Chronicles the lifelong friendship between the Morgans, a young couple with talent and dreams but no prospects or connections, and the Langs, a wealthy couple generous enough to share their good fortune

Crossing to Safety

Page Stegner

Presents a collection of essays, including fifteen published for the first time, along with the novella "Genesis"

Wallace Stegner's American West

Marking the Sparrow's Fall

A concise, inspirational discourse by one of America's finest writers, on the difficulties, rewards, and importance of teaching creative writing.

Responses to a Series of Questions

On the Teaching of Creative Writing

Fernando G. Corugedo

El historiador Lyman Ward, ya retirado de sus tareas docentes, se propone investigar la memorable historia de sus abuelos: una pareja de la alta sociedad de la costa Este que en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX abandona el lugar en el que ambos habían crecido para instalarse en California, cuando este era un territorio aún por civilizar. Conforme va profundizando en los recuerdos de su familia, Lyman Ward se da cuenta de la intensidad con la que el pasado ayuda a iluminar y comprender el presente. Basada en la correspondencia de una autora e ilustradora norteamericana, Mary Hallock Foote, una de las primeras artistas en ocuparse de la vida en el Oeste americano, Ángulo de reposo retrata el esfuerzo que tuvieron que hacer las gentes del Viejo Mundo para enfrentarse a una nueva realidad geográfica, histórica y humana. Esta emocionante narración sobre cuatro generaciones de una familia norteamericana fue galardonada con el premio Pulitzer en 1972, y está considerada como la novela más importante de Wallace Stegner y una de las mejores novelas estadounidenses de todo el siglo XX.

Ángulo de reposo

Ricardo Menendez Salmon

Cuando dos jóvenes parejas se conocen durante la Gran Depresión surge entre ellas una amistad que durará toda la vida. Son muchas las cosas que inicialmente comparten: Charity Lang y Sally Morgan están esperando su primer hijo, y sus maridos Sid y Larry son profesores de Literatura en la Universidad de Wisconsin, aunque su relación se va haciendo más compleja a medida que comparten décadas de lealtad, amor, fragilidad y desacuerdos. Treinta y cuatro años más tarde del inicio de esta amistad los Morgan visitan la colonia de veraneo de sus amigos en Vermont para el que saben será su último fin de semana junto a Charity. Durante esa visita Larry rememora todos sus años de amistad: las alegrías, las penas, las ilusiones y también los sueños que quedaron por cumplir; pero por encima del relato de los hechos late una profunda reflexión sobre el amor y la amistad, sobre los intentos de cuatro personas por hacer frente a las tribulaciones de la vida. Publicada originalmente en 1987, e inédita hasta ahora en castellano, En lugar seguro se ha convertido por derecho propio en una de las novelas americanas más apreciadas del siglo XX. Con esta novela Libros del Asteroide inicia la publicación de la obra de Wallace Stegner en español, que continuará con Ángulo de reposo y The Spectator Bird.

En Lugar Seguro

Bruce Mason, first seen as a youth embittered by the events of The Big Rock Candy Mountain, returns to Salt Lake City forty-five years later for the funeral of an aunt. As Bruce makes the perfunctory arrangements for the funeral, we enter with him on an intensely private and painful inner pilgrimage populated by the ghosts of his past. Recollections of them become a source of revelation for Bruce Mason. He makes peace with his dead father and finally comes around to what he is: a respected professional diplomat and a man with a past worth inheriting. Recapitulation is a moving novel about self-knowledge dearly bought and ultimate survival by one of America's most distinguished novelists.

Recapitulation

Richard Scowcroft

Twenty Years of Stanford Short Stories

A Biographical Novel

Joe Hill

Award-winning and bestselling author Wallace Stegner takes on the hippy generation in a novel of crackling vividness.--The New York Times Book Review. A bearded young cultist invades the lives of a retired literary agent and his wife after the death of their wayward son.

All the Little Live Things

A New England village, untouched by history since the American Revolution, is the unquiet arena containing, but just barely, the aloof natives and the summer residents. Their paths cross, happily or disastrously, in a book that seems too real to be fiction. As Wallace Stegner writes, the conflict on this particular frontier "has been reproduced in an endlessly changing pattern all over the United States."

Second Growth

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Wallace Stegner tells about a thousand-mile migration marked by hardship and sudden death—but unique in American history for its purpose, discipline, and solidarity. Other Bison Books by Wallace Stegner include Mormon Country, Recapitulation, Second Growth, and Women on the Wall.

The Story of the Mormon Trail

The Gathering of Zion

Crossing to Safety Floor Display

Crossing to Safety Counter Display

Written during World War II and its immediate aftermath, the eighteen stories of The Women on the Wall move from women to war and back again, but it is the women who remain central. There are Alma, a war bride who runs a farm better than the neighbor men; Lucy, a former WAAF, working through college; Tamsen, who keeps her husband drunk so she can do as she pleases; and the women on the wall, who, with nothing to do but wait for their husbands to return from the war, find their private consolations. To these stories Wallace Stegner brings the same skill and thoughtfulness that won him the National Book Award for The Spectator Bird

The Women on the Wall

Collects six decades worth of previously unpublished correspondence by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and environmentalist, in a volume that imparts his perspectives about such topics as literature, history, and conservation to such recipients as Ansel Adams, Wendell Berry, and William Kittredge.

Wallace Earle Stegner

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